Collage of six small colour tattoos on fingers, showing a bear, a red heart, a Domo-style character, a soot sprite, mountains and a cloud, each with bold black outlines.

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Six small finger tattoos in a collage

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A six-panel collage of small tattoos on fingers, each shown in a close crop with red nail polish visible. The designs are simple cartoon-style subjects: a brown bear, a red heart, an orange and yellow character, a black fuzzy sprite with pink accents, blue and pink mountains, and a pale grey cloud, most with black outlines. Colour is used throughout on a plain white background, and the compositions are tightly framed on each finger.

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The rain had found its way under the back door again, so Mrs Pell moved the coal scuttle and the bread bin before she sat down with the ledger. Thirty-one years of lodgers were written in it, along with the price of paraffin and the breakfasts nobody ate, and in the margins of the winter pages her son had drawn things when he was small.

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Owen had given them names nobody else used. The bear was Mr Tuesday, who sat on the stairs and waited for the bath to run. The heart was for the boarders who paid on time. There was a soot sprite that lived behind the boiler and came out only when someone whistled, and a squat orange fellow who guarded the coat hooks. The mountains were the far side of the bay, where Owen said his father had gone to fish and never come back to describe it. The little grey cloud he drew last, in the week before he left for the lifeboat station, and beneath it he wrote: this one is for when it is raining.

Mr Hollis, who had been in room four since Easter and rose before the gulls, found her at the table one morning with her spectacles pushed up on her forehead. He asked, politely, whether she had ever thought of having the drawings copied onto something that would last. She told him the ledger was already lasting better than the boiler. He nodded and went out, and came back at noon with a small brown parcel: a fine nib, a bottle of blue ink, and a card on which he had traced the mountains from memory, rather badly.

She did not thank him. That evening she took up the pen and, under her son's grey cloud, which the damp had nearly lifted from the page, she drew it again, pressing hard so the line would hold. Then she closed the book and went to see whether the sprite had come out to whistle. The kitchen was warm, and the rain had stopped.